TO G. L. SHKLOVSKY

Written:Written between September 26 and 28, 1911Published:First published in 1930 inLenin Miscellany XIII.

      Sent from Zurich to Berne.

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DearComrade,

Ihave received your letter and replied by telegram.

Toavoid any misunderstandings, here are a few more
details. What I meant was apubliclecture (“Stolypin and
the Revolution”), with the admission fees to go for the
benefit ofRabochaya Gazeta(of course there is no need,
or at any rate it’s not obligatory, to say in the
advertisement for whose benefit it
is).[1]The presiding committee
(or the chairman) at the meeting must be from among localBolsheviks, and by no means “elected” (to avoid intrigues
and scandals, to which the liquidators are very prone).

Iam willing to have a talk with pro-Party people (
Plekhanovites),but not with Golosists. It would be best of all
to confine the audience to Bolsheviks.

Ihope to arrive on Thursday; I will send you a telegram
about the time of arrival, if I can manage it.

Pleasebe kind enough to send this letterat onceto Gorin
[M. Gorine. Rue du Pont Neuf. 2. (Chez M-me Vire) Genève],
to enable him to take steps to organise asimilarlecture at
Geneva onSaturday, and to reply to me through you by
Thursday.

Allthe best,Lenin

Asregards literature for the lecture, please get together
for me
(α) afileof the C.O.,
(β)Two
Parties,
(γ)Dnevnik,
(δ)
Arkomed.[2]

[1]Leninread his lecture, “Stolypin and the Revolution”, in Berne
on September 28, 1911, and in Geneva on October 3, 1911.

[2]Areference to the newspaperSotsial-Demokrat; L. B.
Kamenev’s pamphletTwo Parties, with Lenin’s preface (see present
edition, Vol. 17, pp. 225–28); G. V. Plekhanov’sDnevnik
Sotsial-Demokrata; and S. T. Arkomed’s bookThe Labour Movement
and Social-Democracy in the Caucasus, Part One, with G. V.
Plekhanov’s preface, Geneva, 1910.